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| just getting into the building aspect of the sport and was curious to see what people pic for there favorite lure or what you would call your go to lure. Also what is your favorite color or most frequent color that is fished. Let's see if a pattern develops. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | My favorite lures are gliders I make myself. They are hard to make just right with just enough weight to do what you want and to get to glide just right. For mass produced baits, I love my Suicks. Can't buy baits from a nicer guy to boot! Steve is a good guy. |
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Location: big cove tannery pa | I second James on the Suicks! Great Lures. I have never caught a musky on one of my homemade bucktails but they are getting thrown alot and will eventually get bit. Just finished up a 12 inch black marabou with a #8 fluted indiana blade on it.
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Location: APPLETON, WI | My current addiction is the Phantom Softail... gorgeous paint finishes and definitely one of my favorite jerkbaits.
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| My favorites are definitely my own gliders. I haven't made any since last fall, but I have 4 different styles cut but not routered or weighted or sanded......lots to do. My favs are the California Redwood lures that I did last fall. I have a bunch of them to finish too. Some will get painted, some won't. I have 2 appts. in the next 2 weeks for injections and a possible nerve block. I'll try anything right about now. I gotta get back at it because I want to see my ideas through to fruition. My mom was over last week and commented that "It sure would be a waste not to finish all of these. You've got such a talent for it." TRANSLATION...Get off your fat ass, suck up the pain and get on with it. Even if it's only 30-45 minutes a day, I have to keep these things moving. I also tied over 100 differentiations of single/double/hair/flashabou things that all wound up in my box, so I guess that I better catch a few on them too.
Still love my redwood gliders, painted or not....depends on the grain.
Other than my own boasting, I really like anything made by Mike King. Twitch 'em, troll 'em, rip 'em and anything else that you like to do. Details: He makes awesome lures, they do what they should, and they require little effort. My kind of |
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Location: South-Central PA | Like James and Beaver, I prefer my own lures- crankbaits that I make. I fish a 'small' local river that has a decent muskie population but a big fish is in the mid-40's. Because of that, I don't throw 12" lures, most of my lures are 8" and smaller. I usually use lures in the 6" range. My local river is also pretty shallow so everything I use runs in the 0-4' range. I build alot of larger baits that dive deeper for other guys, but for my own fishing, I was forced to build my own because I couldn't find a factory lure that suited my needs.
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Location: SE, WI. | My favorite lure and go to bait that I make is a HEADBANGER. It is a topwater lure that has a rotating head. I prefer the noise upfront for this prop style surface lure because I feel you miss less fish with the sound coming from the front of the lure. Great tork that blade rotates on a single shaft which gives maximum sound. Then a flaptail a close 2nd. My custom spinnerbaits are a close second also. A swimmerhead used at night for profile and to slow your presentation down is a good idea. Also the somewhat leverage free salmon hook allows great penetration, and less lost fish than the regular spinnerbaits on the market. 3rd, custom poured plastics and jigs.  |
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| I like WOOD GLIDERs and jerkbaits--suicks amma bama's Gries Strikers Smuttly Dogs--2nd would be twitch baits like Cranes and Big Games---Really like the wood stuff. |
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| my favorite is my woodies. we developed the 6 1/////4 shallow crank for board trolling in the great lakes. as for colors my favorite is perch wh/belly. theres so many hot colors that are just as good. the big girls let you know the flavor of the day. if your building remember different woods give different actions. |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | I love them all and I want them all ha ha ha ha ha . I love Gliders and crankbaits, Bucktails and jigs. Top water and even live baits. I love a big sucker when it gets eaten by a monster. Nothing like it ha ha ha . I have my favorites thougfh like old blue the 1997 Loke that has near 70 fish to its credit now since it just helped my wife and I to 15 fish day trolling. My old Copper Carp Little Claw which is on its second life as I just completely repainted and coated it. It runs perfect again and already got me a fat 37 incher. There is majic in that wood. My old Weagle that Steve Cady built. I had to repaint and refinish that one too as the Muskies ate the whole tail sections paint off it. I have so many more lures that have done so well for me over the years it would take an hour to list them all. I will say this it always feels great to catch your fish on a lure you built. Our biggest fish casting for both Michelle and I came on our own Little Claws. and her biggest fish trolling a 34 pound 52 inch St. Clair fish came on one of our Slashers. My best trolling fish came on a Loke. so 3 out of 4 of our personal bests came on our own lures. But I love them all. Wood lures rule in my book. Mike |
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Location: Land of the Musky | 15 fish day! WOW! Looks like the "King" in your name has been well earned. Nice. What does that Loke look like now after 70 fish? |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | Im sure you will al get a bang out of these pictures. The double lure fish was a 38 incher and part of that 15 fish day on the 10th of may. The fish ate the olve frog and then the blue frog as they were running about 15 feet apart both on the planer boards. Hungry fish eh? enjoy. Mike
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Location: beloit | thats crazy |
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Location: Oregon | Wow.....pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.
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Location: Ohio | Fiedler - 5/15/2010 12:46 PM
thats crazy
As I looked at the picture, those were the exact words I used. |
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Location: Janesville | My favorite is the Rubber Dubber I make myself.Great bait won many tournament with it. I now have the Super rubber Dubber that is 14 ozs I also love suicks Ihavearound 100 of them great baits |
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| That picture says everything about musky fishing. The truth is so much better than anything you could ever make up.
They are truly magnificent predators. |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | prop baits and bucktails lol. love em. |
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | fatfingers - 5/16/2010 10:45 AM
That picture says everything about musky fishing. The truth is so much better than anything you could ever make up.
They are truly magnificent predators.
You got that right Vince.  |
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Location: St. Lawrence River | Kingfisher - 5/15/2010 11:59 AM
Im sure you will al get a bang out of these pictures. The double lure fish was a 38 incher and part of that 15 fish day on the 10th of may. The fish ate the olve frog and then the blue frog as they were running about 15 feet apart both on the planer boards. Hungry fish eh? enjoy. Mike
So on the double lure fish...Whos fish is it? Whoevers bait got bit first? Haha.. Split it down the middle? |
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Accidently double posted. Sorry
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Any lure that I have painted with the exception of very few that were painted for me by request such as Beaver and Don Slagle. That way my patterns are all pretested before I "send them little piggies to market".
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Location: Muskegon Michigan | JakeStCroixSkis - 5/17/2010 11:30 AM
Kingfisher - 5/15/2010 11:59 AM
Im sure you will al get a bang out of these pictures. The double lure fish was a 38 incher and part of that 15 fish day on the 10th of may. The fish ate the olve frog and then the blue frog as they were running about 15 feet apart both on the planer boards. Hungry fish eh? enjoy. Mike
So on the double lure fish...Whos fish is it? Whoevers bait got bit first? Haha.. Split it down the middle?
My wife and I take turns on trolled fish. She was up. What was weird was that the second rod was the one that popped the release and we didnt even know the fish had eaten the olive one until we were bringing it in we saw the other lure in its mouth. The release should have tripped but it just ran line through it. W e never even looked at the other rod becaue we were both in the back of the boat and that other board rod was behind us then. I probably would have thought we had a double header ha ha ha . Mike |
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Location: Eau Claire | gliders and anything I have made myself, nothing more satisfying than fooling a toothy one with metal, hair and feather! |
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